The local press and Victorian culture
Review of Andrew Hobbs, A Fleet Street in Every Town: The Provincial Press in England, 1855–1900 (Open Book Publishers, 2018)
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Reviews from the Journal of Liberal Democrat History.
Review of Andrew Hobbs, A Fleet Street in Every Town: The Provincial Press in England, 1855–1900 (Open Book Publishers, 2018)
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Review of Iain Dale and Jacqui Smith (eds.), The Honourable Ladies, Vol. 2 (Biteback Publications, 2019)
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Review of Ian Dunt, How to be a Liberal (Canbury Press, 2020)
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Review of Keith Gildart and David Howell (eds.), Dictionary of Labour Biography, vol. XV (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019).
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Review of Vernon Bogdanor, Britain & Europe in a Troubled World (Yale University Press, 2020).
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Review of Tim Farron, A Better Ambition: Confessions of a Faithful Liberal (SPCK Publishing, 2019).
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Review of Martin Gibson, A Primrose Path: The gilded life of Lord Rosebery’s favourite son (Arum Press, 2020)
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Review of T. G. Otte, Statesman of Europe: A Life of Sir Edward Grey (Allen Lane, 2020)
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Review of Jacqueline Riding, Peterloo: The Story of the Manchester Massacre (Head of Zeus, 2018); Polyp, Eva Schlunke and Robert Poole, Peterloo: Witnesses to a Massacre (New Internationalist, 2019); Robert Poole, Peterloo: The English Uprising (Oxford University Press, 2019).
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Review of Luke Blaxill, The War of Words: The Language of British Elections, 1880–1914 (Royal Historical Society, Boydell Press, 2020).
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Review of John A. Hargreaves, Keith Laybourn and Richard Toye (eds.), Liberal Reform and Industrial Relations: J. H. Whitley (1866– 1935) – Halifax Radical and Speaker of the House of Commons (Routledge, 2018).
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Review of Ken Clarke, Kind of Blue: A political memoir (Macmillan, 2016); David Cameron, For the Record (William Collins, 2019); Oliver Letwin, Hearts and Minds: The battle for the Conservative Party from Thatcher to the present (Biteback Publishing, 2017).
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Review of Ruth Illingworth, Sheelagh Murnaghan – Stormont’s only Liberal MP (Ulster Historical Foundation, 2019).
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Review of Philip Cowley and Dennis Kavanagh, The British General Election of 2015 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016);
Philip Cowley and Dennis Kavanagh, The British General Election of 2017 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
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Review of Edward Fieldhouse, Jane Green, Geoffrey Evans, Jonathan Mellon, Christopher Prosser, Hermann Schmitt, and Cees van der Eijk, Electoral Shocks: The volatile voter in a turbulent world (OUP, 2020).
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Review of Martin Kyrle, Liberals in Hampshire: a part(l)y history, Part 4, Eastleigh 1978–85 (Sarsen Press, 2020).
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Review of James Doherty, Irish Liberty, British Democracy: The third Irish home rule crisis, 1909–14 (Cork University Press, 2019).
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Review of Tim Bale, Paul Webb and Monica Poletti, Footsoldiers: Political Party Membership in the 21st Century (Routledge, 2020).
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Review of Patricia Lee Sykes, Losing from the Inside (2nd edn., Routledge, originally published 1989, republished 2018 as an e-book).
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Review of Ian Ivatt, The Financial Affairs of David Lloyd George (Welsh Academic Press, 2019).
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